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Tag: Australian

Review: Waypoints by Adam Ouston

A soaring novel that conjures awe and wonder.

Australian, Contemporary, Fiction, Historical, Melbourne, Novel

Review: Root And Branch by Eda Gunaydin

A compelling search for origins.

Australian, Class, Contemporary, Essays, Multiculturalism, Racism, Sydney, Turkey, Western Sydney, Working class

Review: Hydra by Adriane Howell

A many-headed mystery of a novel.

Australian, Contemporary, Fiction, Novel

Review: Praiseworthy by Alexis Wright

A vast, “open-wound theatre” that peers deep into a continent’s soul.

Australian, Contemporary, Fiction, Indigenous Australians, Indigenous writers, Novel

Review: We Come With This Place by Debra Dank

A rich and beautiful history of family and place.

Australian, Historical, Indigenous Australians, Indigenous history, Indigenous writers, Memoir, Nonfiction

Review: This All Come Back Now (edited by Mykaela Saunders)

A spectacular anthology of First Nations spec fic.

Anthology, Australian, Fiction, Indigenous writers, Speculative, speculative fiction

Review: A Few Right Thinking Men by Sulari Gentill

A sprightly if sanitised mystery set during one of Australia’s flirtations with fascism.

Australian, Crime, Fiction, Historical, Novel

Review: Little Plum by Laura McPhee-Browne

A beautiful and tender novel of becoming a mother.

Australian, Contemporary, Fiction, Melbourne, Novel, Parenting

Review: Salt Creek by Lucy Treloar

An intimate, clear-sighted epic of Australian colonialism.

Australian, Colonialism, Fiction, Historical, Indigenous history, Novel

Review: Signs And Wonders by Delia Falconer

Essays that evoke the feeling of living through environmental crisis.

Australian, Climate change, Essays, Extinction, nature writing, Nonfiction

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